Clarion 1950-02-10 Vol 27 No 08

,ate Official Schaal Paps4
JOHN BALIAN
John Answers
A Higher Call
By Perry Hedberg
And let the peace
on God rule in
your hearts .. .
Col. 3 :15
Vol. XXVII—No. 8 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, February 10, 1950
lifientoriain
Lords & Ladies
Plan Party
Each year the remark is heard concerning Founder's Week, —Ills
one has been the best yet," and according to plans for the one rapidly
approaching, it will not come one whit behind any that have preceded it.
Each day's program will include a
prayer forum in the Seminary
chapel at 8 : 55 a.m., the regular
chapel service at 9:45, followed by
two additional morning sessions
and three afternoon sessions.
The speakers for the daily ses-sions
will be Dr. Herbert Lockyer
of Liverpool, England; Dr. Harold
Fickett, noted Conference speaker
from Galveston, Texas; Dr. F. D.
Whitesell of Northern Baptist Sem-inary,
Professor Clifford Larson,
Rev. Curtis Akenson, Rev. Sten
Lindberg, Rev. Eric Anderson, Con-ference
evangelist, and Rev. Alphin
Conrad.
The evening sessions to be held
at the Payne Avenue Church will
each feature speakers from the
Conference, presenting the work of
the various departments, plus one
of the guest speakers. Special
music during the week will be
furnished by Bethel talent, includ-ing
the male chorus, girls' chorus
and chapel choir.
In a thrill-packed pre-game, the
Lads edged the Lords in an over-time
tilt, 41-39. Leading through
most of the game, the Lads fell
behind in the closing minutes, but
rallied to end the game in a tie,
39 all. In the action-filled overtime,
Howie Carlson dropped in the win-ning
bucket. Schader led the Lads
to victory with 16 tallies.
Basketball was not the only at-traction
of the evening for the now
well-known Bethel tumblers put on
a polished performance between
halves of the main event before a
very appreciative audience. Led
by Curt Wik and Marlin Nelson, the
squad executed many difficult
feats with ease.
The large crowd was greeted
with many unusual surprises. In the
pre-game warm up the Fumbling
Five sported spotless white linen
warm-up jackets that would have
looked more appropriate on head
waiters in a swanky restaurant.
Even the starting faculty five
were surprised to find themselves
pitted against some of the best
girl hash-slingers on the Bethel
chow line.
After this false start, the game
got underway only to be interrupt-ed
during time outs with curb ser-vice
rendered by the dining hall
waitresses and the faculty women.
Ice bags, baby bottles, thermome-ters,
coffee, bibs, orange juice, and
milk, all added fun to the night of
frolic.
Lords and Ladies
Give School Skate
Skaters were provided with an
evening of fun at the all-school
skating party sponsored by the
Lords and Ladies February 3.
Special features of the skate
were a lighted rink and music. Dur-ing
a brief rest period the skaters
were entertained as Don Goldsmith
and Betty Dughman demonstrated
the art of figure skating. 011ie
Osberg directed the skating period.
After the skate, hot chocolate
and cookies were served in the
girls' lounge as the skaters warmed
themselves around a roaring fire
in the fireplace. Bob Frykenberg
then led a short singspiration,
climaxed with devotional thoughts
on the twenty-third psalm.
Lads and Lassies
Feature Edgren
The Lads and Lassies are giving
their second annual presentation
of the Edgren Program tonight.
Al Windham has charge of the
monthly meeting. The main feature
of the program will be the life
story of Dr. Edgren and the found-ing
of Bethel College and Semin-ary.
Short biographical sketches of
several other conference leaders
will be given also. Some rather
unique musical arrangements have
been prepared for the evening.
Those in charge are sure that
this program will be of vital in-terest
to all those who can attend.
Calls for Workers
Exceed volunteers
Thousands of boys and girls will
be waiting for Bible School work-ers
to come this summer with the
message of abundant life. At pre-sent
calls to Bethel for workers
exceed applications.
Miss Esther Sable, who is in
charge of Daily Vacation Bible
School this year, is anxious that
all applicants be assigned schools
by Founder's Week, when the pas-tors
may become aquainted with
those who will be teaching. Appli-cation
blanks may be secured in
Miss Sable's office.
Workers are usually sent out in
teams of two or three for a period
of two weeks. The Baptist Women's
Union of Minnesota has a $500 an-nual
fund that guarantees the work-ers
$15 a week. Other states have
similar provisions. Board and lodg-ing
are provided by the churches.
Bethel has sent an average of
60 to 100 young people to various
churches in the northwest and to
both coasts in this work other
years. Conversions have numbered
in the hundreds, and not the least
blessed have been the workers, ac-cording
to their testimony.
"Hi collegue," was a favorite
greeting of John Balian as I knew
him. He could be considered a
model Bethel student.
Last year, his junior year, he
was associate editor of the Spire,
junior class Student Council reprer
sentative, Progressive Discussion
Group moderator and a member of
the debate squad. In addition, John
taught a Sunday School class at
Simpson Memorial Church and led
the devotional committee for Min-nesota
Mining Manufacturing Corn-pany's
Christian Fellowship group.
His was a keen mind that ap-proached
classroom sessions with
a strong desire to learn. He was
endowed with a holy curiosity.
His organizational ability is easi-ly
recognized in The Spire staff
now and his loyalty to the school,
extracurriculars and friends was
seen in his promptness to keep
all appointments.
Bethel Grad Returns
From Africa Mission
Miss Mildred Olson, who has
spent the last twelve years in
Africa, will speak at the Mission-ary
Band meeting next Friday.
Lately she has been working with
the women and children at the
mission station located in Kan-senyi,
Belgium Congo, where most
of the children are orphans. Miss
Olson will have many unusual
stories to relate. She also has been
teaching women's Bible classes and
could give missionaries-to-be some
pointers on the "how and where-fore"
in that department.
Miss Olson graduated from Bet-hel
Academy in 1933 and is a mem-ber
of the Baptist Church in Rock-ford,
Illinois. While attending the
Academy Miss Olson worked in
Vacation Bible Schools in South
Dakota. Miss Grace Swanson, who
is now a Conference missionary
in India and Glen Swanson, presi-dent
of Missionary Band, were both
students of hers.
Missionary answers in response
to the efforts of the 626 Club are
beginning to reach Bethel. The
club, it will be remembered, is
sponsored by Missionary Band and
its slogan is Pray-Give-Write.
Come to our meeting on Friday
night,
It's Valentine's, you know.
Dan Cupid will be there all right
With his arrows and his bow.
There'll be many Lords and Ladies
there,
So watch for Cupid's dart.
The only thing you have to fear
Is losing your fond heart.
Bethel Budget
Is Expanding
This year Bethel is again striv-ing
to meet an expanding budget of
$317,759.50. This income is antici-pated
mostly from tuitions with the
balance coming from donations,
rent, board, interest and miscel-laneous
contributions.
Students are so busy going to
school that few of them ever pause
to think of what it costs to keep
Bethel in operation. Last' year's
financial statement revealed camp-us
evaluation and assets to be
$1,114,762.77. Liabilities connected
with operation are small, although
last year was not as successful as
previous years in reference to
balancing the budget.
The year ended with a deficit for
the fiirst time in ten years, the
amount being $6,643.45. The men's
and the women's dormitories and
the dining hall came out "in the
red." Hagstrom Apartments was
the only dormitory to meet its
cost of operation.
TONIGHT
Literary Society meet.
Basketball with Austin (there)
February 11
Basketball with Waldorf (here)
February 13
Thu Sigma Pi at 7:30 p.m.
Twin City Basketball League (in
Bethel gym)
February 14
German Club at noon.
Spanish Club at 7:30 p.m.
February 16
B.W.A.
February 17
Basketball with Worthington
(here)
Missionary Band
February 20-24 Founder's Week
February 20
Twin City Basketball League (in
Bethel gym)
February 21
Basketball with Brainard (here)
February 25
Basketball with Bethany (here)
February 27- March 3
Winter Quarter Finals
February 27
Twin City Basketball League (in
Bethel gym)
February 28
Basketball with Luther (here)
Faculty Captures
Cup In 49-38 Win
Lads Edge Lords, 41-39 in Overtime
Thriller. Crowd Cheers Gymnasts
by Dave Osterberg
Last night the Faculty basketball team, led by professors Johnson
and Edwards, gained possession of the coveted Coffee-Cup Trophy by
cleaning up on the Fumbling Five dishwashers, 49-38, in the third annual
Coffee Cup game. This victory was the first for the teachers in the series,
having lost in the first two tilts to the Clarion squad in '48 and to the
Intramural All-Stars in '49.
After a cold first quarter which ended with the dishwashers leading
7-5, the teachers found the answers and pulled away to a 25-14 lead at
half-time. The third quarter ended with the faculty out in front 42-21,
but the dishwashers proved they were not all washed up by coming back
strong in the last quarter to make it a great battle. Final score was
49-38 for the faculty.
Founder's Week
A Challenge
Week of February 20-24
Promises Great Things
ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of the year at Bethel as well as
throughout the Conference is Founder's Week. The week of February
20 - 24 will be packed with spiritual nourishment and many challenges
again this year.
Lords and Ladies are planning
a program in keeping with the day
on which they will meet. It is
doubtful if it could be strictly held
that Dan Cupid's campus activities
are confined at Bethel to the single
day of February 14, but he will
be the guest of the two societies,
nevertheless. So to all Lord's and
Ladies the following excerpt is
addressed:
LORDS AND LADIES
Page 2 THE CLARION Friday, February 10, 1950
G1631EOCU
Editor-In-Chief Bruce Herrstrom
Assistant Editor Marilyn Kortum
News Editor Margaret Sheffler
Feature Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Sports Editor Roger Hedberg
Photographer Keith Davis
Staff Members: L. Anderson, R. Armstrong, D.
Brown, L. Butler, D. Carlson, L. Caskey, J.
Hubbard, R. Jorgenson, K. LaGesse, H. Lind,
B. Olander, A. Samuelson, M. Schultz, E.
Skogman, C. Smith, E. Stayton, M. Thomp-son,
A. Weldon.
Chief Typist Lois Mellbom
Business Manager Ray Johnson
Circulation Manager Helen Dahl
Faculty Adviser David Guston
Issued bi-kveekly during the school
year, except during vacations.
Subscription Rate $1.50 per year
No Other
Foundation . . •
In order to perform our task well it is
absolutely necessary not only to have a
clear vision of the future with its needs and
possibilities but also to have a thorough
understanding and appreciation of the past.
Most certainly we shall be better prepared
to rightly evaluate our own times if we
know men and movements of history, pri-marily
as it pertains to the kingdom of God.
At Founder's Week very naturally our
thoughts are directed, at least in part, to
the life and work of the founder of Bethel,
John Alexis Edgren. The fundamental ob-ject,
however, is not to pay tribute to the
founder, but rather to render praise to
God for giving to our fellowship a man of
such rare intellectual and spiritual talents
as Dr. Edgren.
From the very beginning of the Seminary,
in October, 1871, he adopted, among others,
the following important principle: "The
preacher should have as good an education
as possible, but of all knowledge the most
important is to know the Bible. To cultivate
the mind is important, but to cultivate the
spiritual life is even more important." We
trust and pray that that important emphasis
on the Bible and a deep spiritual life may
always be supreme at Bethel. For we are
not in the field to compete with intellec-tualism
"per se", or to answer all the argu-ments
of the critcs, but rather to prepare
young people to go out with a positive
message from the Lord, and to point the
lost to the Redeemer, and to build up the
saints in a holy walk. The program of
Founder's Week has always centered in
basic Christianity, and thus to furnish both
instruction and inspiration to Christian
workers "to expect great things from God
and attempt great things for God."
Adolf Olson
We acknowledge the omission of credi-tation
due to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
for the use of their cut on the front
page of our Jan. 27th edition.
ON
THE
BURNER
Eric. was out chopping ice off the side
walk the other day which reminded me of
the "chopping" that some of the biology
lab. students have been doing. As Mr.
Anderson was helping Adelia Erickson cut
the eyes out of her pig last Thursday he
smilingly began to sing, "I don't see me in
your eyes anymore."
How the days do fly, I think even the
ground hog must feel pretty rushed! As
"Morrie" would say, "It depends on how
cute she it!" That's "Morrie" always wising
off.
Fellows, just to slip a hint, here's one
big chance of the year to let that gal know
how much you really like her. You don't
have to take her out to dinner or make
eyes at her in the hall. Just send her three
little words written on a piece of paper and
she'll be happy. 'Not "I love you", but
"be my valentine". You'd think I was giving
a commercial for Hallmark cards! Oh, by
the way, you'd be surprised how roses
brighten up a dreary, cold, dormitory
"cell".
Just in case you've been wondering why
all the bewildered looks and guzzled faces
were walking around campus last week, I'll
tell you. It was "secret pal" or "heart
sister" week for the girls at Bodien Resi-dence.
All the girls had fun writing poems,
doing favors or playing tricks on their
secret pals. Shirley Anderson enjoys play-ing
tricks on her secret pal, Audrey Hol-stedt.
One day Audrey found a wooden keg
sitting by her mail-box with several articles
of her ward-robe tucked inside. Here she
hadn't even missed them. Ruth Danielson
found a whole pie waiting on her desk
one evening. Speaking about pies, I think
most-of us had our share of sweets—didn't
we look it?
Accidently or on purpose is the question.
Several girls have received pamphlets on
"How to lose weight", "How to be a good
cook", and "How to improve your voice."
You fellows expect an awful lot.
Has everyone gotten to see the newest
Sonja Henny at Bethel? She's a whiz on
ice-skates. Have you guessed — Margaret
Hanson. There are several handsome coup-les
seen together on the skating rink as
well as in the coffee-shop. Eddie Carlson
doesn't seem to have too much trouble hold-ing
Caroline Anderson up.
Has anyone noticed a tall dark complect-ed
man walking around campus lately?
He's rather quiet, but usually friendly and
jovial. Do you think you have noticed him?
Well, if you see a man of this description
walking around campus please report it to
the Clarion. We'd like you to identify our
"mystery man." Until he is identified keep
your eyes open and look for more clues.
He knows, He loves, He cares—
Nothing the truth can dim;
He gives His very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.
Debaters Among Top Ten
At Moorhead Tournament
Men's division was held at Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn.
Women's division was held at Moorhead
State Teachers, Moorhead, Minn.
Bethel entered 3 teams in this tournament
and had one entrant in the Men's Oratory
Division.
The 3 debate teams rated near the top
in the tournament in which there was a
total of 53 teams entered from Iowa, Minne-sota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and Wis-consin.
The 4 top ranking teams in the
tournament won either 6 out of 6 debotes
(1 team from Luther) or 5 out of 6 (3
teams). Bethel was close behind with 2 of
its teams winning 4 debates out of 6 while
its 3rd team won 3 out of 6 debating on the
subject, • "resolved, that the U.S. Govern-ment
should nationalize all the basic non-agricultural
industries."
The teams won debates as follows:
Louis Nelson
Bob Daley
This team received the decision over
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., Bemid-ji
State Teachers, St. Cloud Teachers and
University of Minnesota.
Floyd Welch
Wendell Anderson Won 4 out of 6
This team received decision over Augus-tana,
Sioux Falls, S. D., St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minn., State Teachers College,
Valley City, N. D., and St. Cloud Teachers
(Team No. 2).
Harold Lind
Curtis Johnson W on 3 out of 6
This team received decisions from South
Dakota State, University of Minn.—Duluth
Branch and Augsburg.
In the Oratory Division, Henry Nelson
won out in his division in the preliminary
rounds and won third place in the final
contest. There were 12 original contestants.
The two winning Orators in the men's divi-sion
were from Eau Claire Teachers and
Luther College of Decorah, Iowa.
The next tournament will be held at
State Teachers College, Eau Claire, Wis.
on the week-end of February 17 and 18.
In Memoriam
February 7th marked the passing of a
pioneer foreign missionary of the Baptist
General Conference. Rev. August Lindstedt
began his missionary service in Siberia in
1925. He worked among the Russians in this
area and later pioneered in mission work
among the White Russians in Manchuria
and China.
His faithful labors were rewarded by
retirement in 1948 and now he has gone to
his eternal reward which was ever his
earnest desire.
The Clarion extends its sincere sympathy
to Mrs. Lindstedt and the tour sons, Mar-win,
Olof, Carl and Roy in this loss.
Marwin, as a member of the Clarion Staff,
is Feature Editor.
ft; ems of Xbougbt
By President Wingblade
Generally speaking, the more one knows
about anything or any subject the more in-teresting
that becomes. There are persons
who have become highly enthusiastic in
their study of ants or bees or flowers or
stars. The more they know, the more they
want to know; and their enthusiasm be-comes
contagious.
It is said that the man who waxes en-thusiastic
about cosines can, through his
very enthusiasm, make others to become
interested and enthusiastic—and gather a
crowd.
On the other hand, if we know next to
nothing about a subject, we cannnot expect
ourselves to be much interested.
There is, then, what we call passibe at-tention
and active attention. At first a sub-ject
may seem very dry indeed and, at first
though, we would like to drop it. But we
recognize its importance, and we take our-selves
in hand and buckle down. We com-pel
ourselves to give attention.
What happens? As we go into the sub-ject
more our interest increases. After
awhile we find ourselves carried away by
the quickened interest, and compulsion is
no longer needed. It is rather easy and
pleasant to give ourselves to the subject
and what seemed before to be hard work
and almost drudgery has now become a joy.
And so we have the classic college story
of the freshman who asked permission of
the dean to drop a subject which he clear-ly
disliked. He admitted that he gave little
time to it because he disliked it.
The dean agreed on. one condition; name-ly,
that the student for some ten days give
three hours of study each day to that par-ticular
undersirable subject.
The result was that the student became
so interested that he forgot his very request
to the dean. Upon the dean's meeting the
student in the hall, he asked him how he
was coming with the subject.
"Oh, fine," was the answer.
"But don't you want to drop it?"
"Drop it?" came the response from the
student. "Why, no! It is the most interest-ing
subject I have."
Tbe Zivakeneb &out
Upon • the soul's returning
Unto the Father's house,
From life upon the earth plane,
What can he do to rouse
An understanding of. its
Realness, that he is still aware
Of God's eternal goodness, of
The Heaven he's to share
With the long-departed dear
Ones, with helpers of this realm
Whose watchful care and love
Was the hand upon the helm,
As he glided into safety in
The port of heavenly rest;
There to dwell forever in the
Land of all the blest,
And awaken to the knowledge
That now at least he'll know
That life is real, eternal,
From thence he need not go.
Won 4 out of 6
Speech Pleased the Lord by Harold oCind
Wind from rind
John's
This last weekend the Debate teams
were up at the Red River Tournament at
Moorhead, Minnesota. Somehow this De-bate
Tournament was quite different than
those of latter days. "Why was this dif-ferent?"
you ask. Because there was one
spark, one laugh, one chuckle and one life
missing from our group. It was the Spirit-filled
life of our brother-in-Christ, John
Dalian.
At our last debate tournament in Iowa,
at the Iowa State Teachers College, Sohn
and I were a team. A team of Christian
debaters from Bethel. I can remember how
John kidded Bob Daley about different
kind of air they had in Iowa, how he help-ed
Florence Nordstrom and Jane Johnson
over the icy sidewalks, and how he put
all he had into his job of debating. I re-member
Friday evening after we had had
one debate, had both given an Extempor-ameous
speech and had a bite to eat before
going to our rooms. John and I went to
our room and on the way kidded Bob Daley
and Louie Nelson about sleeping in the
room next to us and that both of us
snored pretty loud. After we had both gotten
ready for bed, Johnnie said, "Let's brush
up on our case a bit." I said, "OK" and
we went over our cases. But the thing I
emember most of that trip and that even-ing
was after we put our "debate cases"
down, Johnnie and I took up the Word of
God and started reading to ourselves. John
didn't say anything just at that time but
the thought came to me that here was a
Christian, whose face was beaming with
the love of Christ, searching the Scriptures
and meditating quietly with God. I thank
God for the testimony of John's life to me,
as I realized my need of a closer walk with
Jesus, by this life that was so dedicated
to Him.
Yes, he spoke the truth in love. I believe,
as it says in I Kings 3:10 and if I may
paraphrase one word, "And John's speech
pleased the Lord." Whether it was in busi-ness,
in debating, in the coffee shop or
wherever. John was truly a Christian
gentleman, upholding love to all his fellow
men. I am .reminded here of the story
of a young woman who was seen in a ceme-tary
in a large city, carefully placing a
wreath of flowers by a simple gravestone.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she paused
beside the grave. A stranger passing noted
her devotion and asked if the deceased was
come close relative of hers.
"No," she replied, "but this is the grave
of a brave fireman who saved my life when
I was an infant. He rushed upstairs in my
father's house, where I lay asleep. The fire-man
opened a window and tossed me
safely to his comrades below. He himself
perished, for the building fell in flames.
He saved me for a longer life, and I must
prove worthy of his sacrifice for me."
Our Saviour and Lord died, when young,
on a cruel cross that we might be saved
eternally. Just before He did so. He said,
"This is my commandment, That ye love
one another, as I have Loved you."
Truly that was the love that John had
for his fellow men, the love of Christ being
shed abroad through his heart.
We know, from the promise in the Scrip-ture,
that if one of God's saints is absent
from the body, he is present with the Lord.
Let it be a challenge to each one of us
left here on this earth to "Work For The
Night Is Coming" and ask ourselves the
question, "What If It Were Today?"
•
Page
NORTHLAND (45) FG FT PF TP Iowa-Platte Valley .. . 8* 0
Zinnicker, f 2 0 3 4 Illinois A 5 3*
Larson, f 0 0 2 1 Michigan-Wisconsin ... 5 3
Hlndes, f 7 2 3 16 Faculty 4 3
L. Howard, c 4 5 3 13 Saint Paul 4 5*
Schroer, c 0 0 2 0 N. Minnesota 3 5*
B. Howard, g 2 3 5 7 Illinois B 3 5
Lodle, g 2 0 2 4 S. Minnesota 3* 5
— — — — West 3* 5
Total 17 11 21 45 East 2 6*
Score at Half: Bethel 22, Northland 21 * One game was played with Faculty
Officials: Rose, Flahtman team. ....
Bishop's Men's Wear
For Style, Quality and Value
In
SPORTSWEAR FURNISHINGS
CLOTHING AND SHOES
Investigate Our Charge Account
1540 Larpenture — PRior 1364
Falcon Heights
1.000
.625
.625
.572
.445
.375
.375
.375
.375
.250
MOLITOR'S
JEWELER
1548 Larpenteur Avenue—MIdway 8000
Diamonds — Watches — Silverware
Prompt watch and Jewelry repair.
10% discount—Bethel students and faculty
(Except Fair Traded items)
SHIRTS LAUNDERED
FOUR DAir SERVICE
Falcon Finer Cleaners
1547 W. Larpenteur NE. 8616
MANY PREFER
NORMANDY KITCHEN
M in neapol is
The Steakhouse Without Liquor 1
Friday, February 10, 1950 THE CLARION
Team at Austin Tonight; Waldorf Here Saturday
9it The Spa/ilk:0i Coach Believes
W aldorfOneOf
by Roger Hedberg The"Toughest"
Indians Maintain Early
Lead to Top Brainerd, 61-50
Last Tuesday night, on the Minnehaha court, the Indian's 61-50
victory over Brainerd put the two teams on an equal basis of one
victory apiece since the competition began last year. Before the first
two minutes of play had elapsed, Brainerd took a 6-1 lead, however,
this lead was overcome when Gordy Wood, Indian guard, scored 12
points in the first period and before the quarter wore out, Bethel
dominated the lead, 25-8. Woods went on to total 24 points for scoring
honors of the evening.
At halftime, the Indians held a
substantial 32-20 lead and added
6 more points to their margin of
victory by a third quarter score of
50-32. Brainerd outscored the In-dians
in the final period but could
only narrow their losing difference
to a final score of 61-50.
In the preliminary game, the
Bethel B team came from behind
to tie Bethlehem Baptist at the
final buzzer. In an overtime period
took a 4 point 36-23 lead which
they held until victory was theirs
as the time ran out. Jim Lemon
scored 14 points taking scoring
honors for the "B's", and Ronald
Anderson followed second by hit-ting
for nine.
BETHEL (63) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 2 1 2 5
G. Johnson, f 0 1 0 1
Bjorndahl, f 2 1 1 5
Nage, f 0 1 3 1
Nelson, f 0 0 2 0
Greenman, c 6 1 1 3
Bandy, c 0 0 0 0
Pierce, g 6 0 1 12
Thompson, g 0 0 0 0
Anderson, g 0 0 0 0
Wood,g 8 8 2 24
T. Johnson, g 0 0 1 0
— — — —
Total 24 13 13 63
BRAINERD (50) FG FT PF TP
Melby, f 3 2 3 8
Scheuer, f 1 2 2 4
Blockman, f 1 0 4 2
Tuomi, c 4 3 3 11
Vealnish, c 0 0 0 0
Butorac, g 4 5 2 13
Schierholtz, g 0 0 0 0
Melenich, g 0 0 1 0
Brown, g 3 0 2 6
Perovitch, g 3 0 0 6
— — — —
Totals 19 12 17 50
Score at Half: Bethel 32, Brainerd 20
Bethel Noses Out
Northland, 46-45
On Saturday night, the 28th, at
Minnehah Academy, The Northland
College `Lumberjacks' of Ashland,
Wisconsin, were nosed out in de-feat
by the Indians by the one point
margin of 46-45. It was a field goal
netted by Center Kenny Greenman
in the last minute of the event that
gave the Indians their lead and an
effective stall for the remaining
seconds preserved the lead for a
victory at the final buzzer. Green-man
also took scoring honors for
the evening by totaling ten field
goals and six free throws for 26
points. Gordy Woods was the only
Indian who came close to Green-man
by totalling 11 points.
BETHEL (46) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 0 3 3 3
G. Johnson, f 0 0 0 0
Bjorndahl, f 0 4 3 4
Nelson, f 0 0 2 0
Greenman, c 10 6 4 26
Pierce, g 1 0 2 2
Wood, g 3 5 1 11
Totals 14 18 15 46
Varsity Bows To
Eau Claire, 67-58
Playing against a tough Eau
Claire State Teachers team, Bethe'l
droped a 67-58 decision for their
first loss in the last six games.
The game, which was played at
Eau Claire on January 30, was a
real battle all the way with the
lead alternating between the two
teams. The contest was fairly
rough; 44 fouls were called, 22 on
each team.
Scorers for Bethel were Green-man
with 19, Wood, 14, Peterson
13, and Pierce with 11. Gordy John-son
added the other point on a free
toss. High for the Blugolds was
Emanuel with 23 points.
BETHEL (58) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 4 5 4 13
G. Johnson, f 0 1 0 1
Bjorndahl, f 0 0 5 0
Nage, f 0 0 2 0
Nelson, f 0 0 0 0
Greenman, c 7 5 3 19
Bandy, c 0 0 0 0
Wood, g 4 6 4 14
Thompson, g 0 0 0 0
Pierce, g 5 1 4 11
T. Johnson, g 0 0 0 0
— — — —
Totals 20 18 22 58
EAU CLAIRE (67) FG FT PF TP
Emanuel, f 10 3 4 23
DuFrane, f 3 3 3 9
Proctor, f 1 1 0 3
Musolf, f 1 0 2 2
Bos, c 6 4 4 16
Washburn, g 2 5 5 9
Bulmer, g 0 0 0 0
Billmeyer, g 1 3 3 5
Torgeson, g 0 0 1 0
— —
Totals 24 19 22 67
Score at Half: Bethel 25, Eau Claire 33
Officials. Sammon, Lee
9oilizamovtal
The top six scorers in the in-tramural
basketball tournament up
to February 4 are as follows:
Howie Carlson (Illinois A) and
Lowell Bergeson (Michigan-Wis-consin)
are tied for first place hon-ors
with 117 points in 8 games.
Ronnie Skoog (Northern Minne-sota),
although in fifth place in
total points, leads all scorers with
an average of 15.5 points a game.
In third place in total points is
Fennet Swanson of the Iowa-Platte
Valley team with 116 points. Don
Dye (Illinois B) with 111 points, is
fourth from the top, while Ronnie
Skoog is in fifth place with 109
points. LeRoy aSndberg (Saint
Paul) is sixth leading scorer in
the league with 103 points.
TEAM STANDING
I sincerely hope that you all en-joyed
the Coffee Cup game last
night and that all your expecta-tions
of your favorite team were
met. I think it does a lot for the
spirit of the faculty-student rela-tionship
when we can witness
sportsmanship saturated with good
humor such as was witnessed last
evening. I want to thank all who
helped make the game a success,
and that includes everybody. If you
didn't participate your purchase of
a ticket makes it possible for the
publications on campus to give bet-ter
service and to improve the
printed page.
Axeen Coaches
Girl's Team
Just Organized
On January 27, 1950, as eighteen
girls gathered in the gym with
their newly-appointed coach, Miss
Axeen, a dream became reality,
for this was the first practice of
the Bethel College Girls' Basketball
Team.
Since that first practice, three
more practices have been held on
January 30, 31, and February 3, at
which the attendence averaged
fourteen. Regular practice hours
have been set from 8:00 P.M. to
10 P.M. on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings and from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M.
on Saturdays.
Plans for this school team began
last fall when several students
presented their ideas to the Student
Council President, Bob Daley. He
then consulted Dean Carlson who
approved the request made for
equipment and thus the Bethel Col-lege
Girls' Basketball Team became
an official school enterprise.
White uniforms with red letter-ing
and numbers have been order-ed
and three new regulation
basketballs as well as smaller
equipment such as whistles and
rule books have already been pur-chased
and put to use.
Several schools in the twin cities
have been contacted concerning
scheduling games with them.
Among these schools are the Uni-versity
of Minnesota Farm Campus,
Murray High School, Mounds-Mid-way
School of Nursing, Macaliaster,
and Northwestern. Coach Edwards
has also expressed the possibility
of having the girls' team play pre-liminary
games before scheduled
varsity games are played.
The twelve girls chosen by Miss
Axeen to compose this first Bethel
Girls' Basketball Team are: Bobbe
Lou Cooper, Janice Jackson, Mari-lyn
Kortum, Aleen Lindquist, Betty
Michaelson, Claryce Skoog, Laurel
Lundberg, Beverly Hiebel, Hanna
Janke, Lois Safstrom, Audrey Sam-uelson,
and Ruth Martinson.
"BE HAPPY WITH
A HOBBY"
Handicraft, Miniature Cars,
Model Airplanes and Railroads
CAL'S HOBBY SHOP
593 N. Snelling MI. 8998
ROGER SHOLD •
For Dependable Quality
Dry Cleaning Service
CASH AND CARRY PRICES
HAMLINE CLEANERS
I would remind you that I'd like
to see you all at tomorrow night's
game over at Minnehaha. In get-ting
the coach's outlook for the
game I might say it didn't sound
too good. Waldorf Junior College
has always had above average Jun-ior
College teams and this year is
no exception. We won by one point
last year and this season it is just
as likely that the victory margin
can be held as easily by either
team, but lets all turn out to help
that margin favor the Indians.
Scoring Spree
NetsCagers180-55
Concordia Win
Chalking up their sixth win of
the season, Bethel defeated Con-cordia,
80-55, on the Comets floor
February 4. The Indians had their
hottest night of the current season
as they hit on 33 of 79 field goals
for a blistering average of .418.
This, along with 14 of 19 tree
throws gave the Redmen their
highest score this year. Greenman,
having his best night of the season,
was high point man with 27 points.
He hit on 13 of 23 shots for a
spectacular 56 percent. Bud Pierce,
again starred at guard with a final
tally of 22 points, and Gordy Wood,
also outstanding at a guard spot
added 15. High for the Comets was
Young with 22.
BETHEL (80) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 1 3 5 5
G. Johnson, f 0 0 0 0
Bjorndahl, f 2 0 4 4
Hage, f 0 1 3 1
Nelson, f 1 1 1 3
Greenman, c 13 1 1 27
Bandy, c 0 0 2 0
Pierce, g 9 4 2 22
Thompson, g 0 0 1 0
Anderson, g 0 0 0 0
Wood, g 6 3 0 15
T. Johnson, g 1 1 1 3
— — — —
Totals 33 14 20 80
CONCORDIA (55) FG FT PF TP
Zobel, f 7 1 5 15
Grumm, f 2 0 0 4
R. Shepherd, I 1 1 3 3
Kuhlman, f 2 2 4 6
Young, c 8 6 1 22
Jank, c 1 0 1 2
G. Shephard, g 1 0 1 2
Koehler, g 0 1 2 1
Daniels, g 0 0 0 0
Ludwig, g 0 0 1 0
Graupner, g 0 0 0 0
— — — —
Totals 22 11 19 55
Score at Half: Bethel 33, Concordia 27
Officials: Liston, Koehler
Tonight the Indians play Austin
Junior College, at Austin, for their
second engagement this season.
Last January 7th, Austin was de-feated
under Indian strength by a
wide margin of 53-21, at the Minne-haha
gymn. In the previous encoun-ter,
it was evident that Austin was
deficient both in offensive and de-fensive
play. The tricky dribbling
and passing of Woods and Pierce
was what seemed to limit efficient
guarding for Austin. Although no
"Cinch" is anticipated by the Bet-hel
five, they go with confidence
of bringing back another victory.
Tomorrow night, starting at 8:15,
at the Minnehaha Gym, the Indians
encounter Waldorf Junior College,
of Forrect City, Iowa, who will
bring a team that, according to
Coach Edwards, is among the
toughest teams on the Indian sche-dule.
Last year the Indians had to
fight hard against the excellent
Waldorf eleven and managed to
come out victors by the one point
margin 46-45. Tomorrow night will
be the first and only time the
teams meet this season.
Sports Sketch
Bud Bjorndahl, six foot, twenty
year old Indian varsity eager, play-ed
his first basketball for a school
team (either high school or college)
last year when he was "first
string" on the Bethel "B" team.
Church league basketball in Chic-ago
gave Bud the foundation for
his collegiate play, as was demon-strated
last year when he was
second high-scorer of the "B"
squad. But, not content to rest
upon past laurels, Bud has improv-ed
his fast, vigorous type of ball
as well as his teamwork to be-come
one of the most valuable
players on the Indian squad.
"Working and playing with the
Bethel squad, which this year is
one of the smoothest and polished
teams I have ever seen, has cer-tainly
been a help to me—not only
in giving me confidence in play-ing
and in developing teamwork but
also in strengthening me as an in-dividual",
is the way Bud expres-ses
himself.
Although uncertain whether he
will transfer to the University of
Illinois or remain at Bethel next
year, Bud is planning at present
on a history major.
Team Won Lost Pct.
FALCON HEIGHTS
HARDWARE
Westinghouse Appliances
General Hardware
MIdway 5933
1539 W. Larpenteur
Winfrey's Variety
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
VARIETY STORE
1532 Larpenteur : MI. 7849
BIBLES, BOOKS, TRACTS, SONG BOOKS
RECORDS AND PLAQUES
10% Discount to Bethel Students
Midwest Book and Bible Centre
135 Endicott Arcade St. Paul 1, Minnesota
QUALITY
Westlund's Food
Market, Inc.
Quick Freeze Service
and Frosted Foods
Meats at Fair Prices
FOODS
Johnson & Barnes
Fairway Foods
Fruits and Vegetables
597 Snelling Avenue North Ne. 8621
PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE
MIDTOWN CLEANERS
Special 10% discount to Bethel Students and Faculty
1535 Como Avenue
1672 Hamline North
Only One Cleaning — The BEST
LANDIS SERVICE STATION
SNELLING & COMO AVE.
• EXPERT LUBRICATION • TOWING & 'WASHING
• TIRE REPAIR • IGNITION TUNE-UP
NEstor 4182
Page 4
THE CLARION Friday, February 10, 1950
Lads, Lass' Hold
Alter-glow Sing
With Bob Daley leading, the all-school
"sing", sponsored by the
Lads and Lassies and held in the
Edgren rec room, Jan: 29, was suc-cessful
in carrying on the spirit
of Missionary Emphasis Week
which had impressed the student
body the week before.
The after-glow gathering got un-derway
with vigorous group sing-ing
around the fire crackling in the
fireplace. Elwin Forssel sang two
solos and Bruce Woodman and
Wendell Anderson played two
selections on their instruments.
Dick Anthony accompanied them
at the piano.
Following a short devotional by
Bob, about twelve testimonies of
praise and blessings received dur-ing
the previous week were given
by -members of the group.
Lads and Lassies climaxed the
time of fellowship by serving a
lunch of barbecued sandwiches,
coffee and cake. The organization
hopes to make these Sunday after-noon
"sings" an established func-tion
on campus. Ruth Martinson
and Margaret Miller headed the
committee responsible for the plan-ning
of the "sing".
Rev. J. G. Johnson Works
With 40 Young Churches
Forty missionary churches are
being supported by the Minnesota
Baptist Conference and many Bet-hel
students have gone to work in
them, yet the work of the Con-ference
in this connection and that
of the executive secretary, Rev.
John G. Johnson, is probably un-familiar
to many students.
Rev. Johnson has been on campus
only since last March. As executive
secretary he is in charge of all
Conference churches in Minnesota.
He helps establish new churches
and aids them in obtaining a build-ing
and a pastor.
Now Available
1950 Advance
Adventurer in Faith
by J. E. Klingberg
Bethel Coffee Shop
eativirp
jOapti5t
eburcb
REV. H. S. CARLSON
Pastor
Reflections From
Senior Class Concert
by James Hubbard
"A new song . . . even praise
unto our God: many shall se,e it,
and fear, and shall trust the Lord."
The Winter Concert sponsored
by the Senior Class of 1950 was
presented Thursday evening, Feb.
2, and well received by the Bethel
audience. From the heart and lips
of George Beverly Shea, well-known
Gospel singer, came a new song
that caused us to trust more in
the Lord. The gospel songs and
hymns were sung in the manner
that only Bev Shea can sing them.
His is not the voice of a Caruso
or a Pinza, but his voice is the
sounding box of his heart, and out
of it flows forth praise unto our
Lord.
Bertil Anderson, graduate of Bet-hel,
accompanied Mr. Shea and
also did solo work in his usual
artistic manner. His ability, both
as a soloist and as. an accompanist
were shown. His treatment of the
work of the master musicians com-plemented
well the performance of
Mr. Shea. Mr. Anderson has the
ability and capacity of a Ruben-stein,
and this gift of his has been
dedicated to the service of the
Lord.
Mr. Shea and Mr. Anderson drew
our hearts and minds closer to the
Lord. Through them we have learn-ed
to love our Lord all the more.
A hearty thank you to the Senior
Class for bringing these two fine
men to our campus.
It is beneficial , to the Bethel
students to have Rev. Johnson on
campus since he has helped many
of the Seminary students to secure
student pastorates. Much of his
time is spent in evangelistic work
for which he is well fitted, having
been the Conference evangelist in
Minnesota from 1927 to 1931.
Love Theme of
Girls' Dorm Party
Almost one hundred pajama-clad
residents of the Girls' Dormitory
packed into the loung of Bodien
Residence on Monday evening, Feb.
6 for the Dorm Valentine Party.
Uppermost in their thoughts was
the fact that secret heart sisters,
who were responsible for many
favors and gifts the past week,
were at last to be revealed. This
was done by original poems writ-ten
by each girl containing clues
to her identity, and given to the
girl who had been her heart sister.
A program centered around the
Valentine theme of love, and cli-maxed
by the love of God inter-woven
Into that theme, was pre-sented
by all the residents of the
new wing of the second floor, and
headed by Florence Nordstrom.
Paintbrush Efforts
Add to Bethel Interiors
Several campus buildings have
added a dash or two of inside
color since Christmas vacation,
thanks to the paintbrush efforts of
John Dishinger and Cliff Anderson,
who did the work under the super-vision
of Mr. Eric Borgeson.
Dean Carlson's office was paint-ed
a pastel green and one of the
music rooms in the college building
underwent similar treatment. In
Bodien residence one corner room
and the basement washroom re-ceived
a coat of paint for the first
time. Back hallways of both dormi-tories
were also painted.
Future plans are made for still
more re-decorating. This will be
the first time dorm room walls
have been painted, tinted plaster
have contributed the needed color
before.
Bethel Representative
Leads Three Meetings
OF Press Society
Perry Hedberg, chairman of the
college and school publications sec-tion
of Evangelical Press Associa-tion,
led three of their sectional
meetings in Chicago the last week
in January. Student representatives
from Moody Bible Institute, North
Park and Wheaton colleges, and
Wheaton academy were present.
"We've preached God's grace and
God's love so long in fundamental
circles," said Dr. A. W. Tozer, "that
we have developed an impudent
and rebellious group of Christians
today. Dr. Tozer, pastor of the
largest Christian and Missionary
Alliance church in the world, made
this statement to the last E.P.A.
session.
He explained to the assembled
evangelical writers and editors "we
need a new emphasis" among or-thodox
believers. "That new em-phasis,"
he said, "should be sub-jective"
and "for the inner man."
This latest need is in contrast to
the "objective, creedal" approach
so evident about us, Dr. Tozer sug-gested.
THIRTY-NINE LEADERS ATTEND
We were encouraged to have
thirty-nine leaders of twenty-two of
our campus organizations in at-tendance.
The first session was in-formative
and enlightening regard-ing
coming events at Bethel, and
suggestions as to how we may best
take part in them were given.
INFORMAL DISCUSSION GROUPS
Then while coffee and doughnuts
were served, we separated into
smaller informal discussion groups
according to fields of major in-terest.
There the specific problem
of our greatest need on Bethel's
campus was discussed and an out-line
of various questions was filled
in by each group. These have prov-ed
very constructive to the Coun-cil
and are of great aid in showing
us the attitudes and interests of
the students.
GREATER THINGS IN STORE
The Forum led to a feeling of
encouragement that even greater
things are in store for Bethel dur-ing
the remainder of this school
year. Work together toward this
end!!
A Logical Conclusion
Among the studes with logical
minds decorating our campus is
Arvid Berg who brings the follow-ing
conclusion. A cat has ten tails.
Why? Because no cat has nine
tails and a cat is one more than
no cat. (Neat, huh?)
Leaders Cooperate
In Mid-Year Forum
by Council Secretary, Helen Olson
The Student Council is grateful for the spirit of interest shown
by many in the Student Leadership Forum held last Tuesday. Many
organizations were most cooperative by submitting their mid-year re-ports
on the activities of their group at the Forum as requested. For
those who did not complete their reports, we remind you that the dead-line
has been extended to Tuesday, February 14th. Be sure to file them
with us by then!
February 12:
9 :45 Bible School
11:00 Rev. David Gunton
5 :15 COltegle Fellowship
6:15' B. T. U. ,
7 :15 Mr. Maurice Schultz
STUDENTS = WELCOME
"The fastest growing church in the Twin Cities"
era eefrtie4
Corner Larpenteur and Snelling — MI. 9646
OPEN MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS
The exclusive specialty shop where Bethel girls
enjoy buying their togs.
A lovely selection of spring suits, coats, silk piints,
cottons, and sportswear especially for the coed.
Charge accounts and lay-bys invited.
N. L. HERMES
Flower and Gift Shop
1581 W. Larpenteur Mi. 1017
Falcon Hairdressing
Studio & Barber Shop
1548 W. Larpenteur Ave.
NE. 6104
JEWELERS
OPTOMETRISTS
C. J. & H. W. ANDERSON
1573 University Avenue
Midway 9910
An accredited school of
NURSING
With college affiliation if desired
The Mounds-Midway School of Nursing operated in con-nection
with Midway Hospital and Mounds Park Hospital,
offers the unusual opportunity of studying nursing in hos-pitals
of high standard in an atmosphere of Christian fellow-ship
and missionary interest.
Minimum prerequisites for entrance: high school diploma,
sound health, good character, and church affiliation.
• Application should be made to: .
MISS MARY DANIELSON, Director
Mounds-Midway School of Nursing
200 EARL STREET ST. PAUL 6, MINN.

Click tabs to swap between content that is broken into logical sections.

Reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted for educational and research purposes with proper attribution to the Bethel Digital Library. No commercial reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted under copyright law without the written permission of Bethel University Digital Library. For questions or further information on this collection, contact digital-library@bethel.edu.

,ate Official Schaal Paps4
JOHN BALIAN
John Answers
A Higher Call
By Perry Hedberg
And let the peace
on God rule in
your hearts .. .
Col. 3 :15
Vol. XXVII—No. 8 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, February 10, 1950
lifientoriain
Lords & Ladies
Plan Party
Each year the remark is heard concerning Founder's Week, —Ills
one has been the best yet," and according to plans for the one rapidly
approaching, it will not come one whit behind any that have preceded it.
Each day's program will include a
prayer forum in the Seminary
chapel at 8 : 55 a.m., the regular
chapel service at 9:45, followed by
two additional morning sessions
and three afternoon sessions.
The speakers for the daily ses-sions
will be Dr. Herbert Lockyer
of Liverpool, England; Dr. Harold
Fickett, noted Conference speaker
from Galveston, Texas; Dr. F. D.
Whitesell of Northern Baptist Sem-inary,
Professor Clifford Larson,
Rev. Curtis Akenson, Rev. Sten
Lindberg, Rev. Eric Anderson, Con-ference
evangelist, and Rev. Alphin
Conrad.
The evening sessions to be held
at the Payne Avenue Church will
each feature speakers from the
Conference, presenting the work of
the various departments, plus one
of the guest speakers. Special
music during the week will be
furnished by Bethel talent, includ-ing
the male chorus, girls' chorus
and chapel choir.
In a thrill-packed pre-game, the
Lads edged the Lords in an over-time
tilt, 41-39. Leading through
most of the game, the Lads fell
behind in the closing minutes, but
rallied to end the game in a tie,
39 all. In the action-filled overtime,
Howie Carlson dropped in the win-ning
bucket. Schader led the Lads
to victory with 16 tallies.
Basketball was not the only at-traction
of the evening for the now
well-known Bethel tumblers put on
a polished performance between
halves of the main event before a
very appreciative audience. Led
by Curt Wik and Marlin Nelson, the
squad executed many difficult
feats with ease.
The large crowd was greeted
with many unusual surprises. In the
pre-game warm up the Fumbling
Five sported spotless white linen
warm-up jackets that would have
looked more appropriate on head
waiters in a swanky restaurant.
Even the starting faculty five
were surprised to find themselves
pitted against some of the best
girl hash-slingers on the Bethel
chow line.
After this false start, the game
got underway only to be interrupt-ed
during time outs with curb ser-vice
rendered by the dining hall
waitresses and the faculty women.
Ice bags, baby bottles, thermome-ters,
coffee, bibs, orange juice, and
milk, all added fun to the night of
frolic.
Lords and Ladies
Give School Skate
Skaters were provided with an
evening of fun at the all-school
skating party sponsored by the
Lords and Ladies February 3.
Special features of the skate
were a lighted rink and music. Dur-ing
a brief rest period the skaters
were entertained as Don Goldsmith
and Betty Dughman demonstrated
the art of figure skating. 011ie
Osberg directed the skating period.
After the skate, hot chocolate
and cookies were served in the
girls' lounge as the skaters warmed
themselves around a roaring fire
in the fireplace. Bob Frykenberg
then led a short singspiration,
climaxed with devotional thoughts
on the twenty-third psalm.
Lads and Lassies
Feature Edgren
The Lads and Lassies are giving
their second annual presentation
of the Edgren Program tonight.
Al Windham has charge of the
monthly meeting. The main feature
of the program will be the life
story of Dr. Edgren and the found-ing
of Bethel College and Semin-ary.
Short biographical sketches of
several other conference leaders
will be given also. Some rather
unique musical arrangements have
been prepared for the evening.
Those in charge are sure that
this program will be of vital in-terest
to all those who can attend.
Calls for Workers
Exceed volunteers
Thousands of boys and girls will
be waiting for Bible School work-ers
to come this summer with the
message of abundant life. At pre-sent
calls to Bethel for workers
exceed applications.
Miss Esther Sable, who is in
charge of Daily Vacation Bible
School this year, is anxious that
all applicants be assigned schools
by Founder's Week, when the pas-tors
may become aquainted with
those who will be teaching. Appli-cation
blanks may be secured in
Miss Sable's office.
Workers are usually sent out in
teams of two or three for a period
of two weeks. The Baptist Women's
Union of Minnesota has a $500 an-nual
fund that guarantees the work-ers
$15 a week. Other states have
similar provisions. Board and lodg-ing
are provided by the churches.
Bethel has sent an average of
60 to 100 young people to various
churches in the northwest and to
both coasts in this work other
years. Conversions have numbered
in the hundreds, and not the least
blessed have been the workers, ac-cording
to their testimony.
"Hi collegue," was a favorite
greeting of John Balian as I knew
him. He could be considered a
model Bethel student.
Last year, his junior year, he
was associate editor of the Spire,
junior class Student Council reprer
sentative, Progressive Discussion
Group moderator and a member of
the debate squad. In addition, John
taught a Sunday School class at
Simpson Memorial Church and led
the devotional committee for Min-nesota
Mining Manufacturing Corn-pany's
Christian Fellowship group.
His was a keen mind that ap-proached
classroom sessions with
a strong desire to learn. He was
endowed with a holy curiosity.
His organizational ability is easi-ly
recognized in The Spire staff
now and his loyalty to the school,
extracurriculars and friends was
seen in his promptness to keep
all appointments.
Bethel Grad Returns
From Africa Mission
Miss Mildred Olson, who has
spent the last twelve years in
Africa, will speak at the Mission-ary
Band meeting next Friday.
Lately she has been working with
the women and children at the
mission station located in Kan-senyi,
Belgium Congo, where most
of the children are orphans. Miss
Olson will have many unusual
stories to relate. She also has been
teaching women's Bible classes and
could give missionaries-to-be some
pointers on the "how and where-fore"
in that department.
Miss Olson graduated from Bet-hel
Academy in 1933 and is a mem-ber
of the Baptist Church in Rock-ford,
Illinois. While attending the
Academy Miss Olson worked in
Vacation Bible Schools in South
Dakota. Miss Grace Swanson, who
is now a Conference missionary
in India and Glen Swanson, presi-dent
of Missionary Band, were both
students of hers.
Missionary answers in response
to the efforts of the 626 Club are
beginning to reach Bethel. The
club, it will be remembered, is
sponsored by Missionary Band and
its slogan is Pray-Give-Write.
Come to our meeting on Friday
night,
It's Valentine's, you know.
Dan Cupid will be there all right
With his arrows and his bow.
There'll be many Lords and Ladies
there,
So watch for Cupid's dart.
The only thing you have to fear
Is losing your fond heart.
Bethel Budget
Is Expanding
This year Bethel is again striv-ing
to meet an expanding budget of
$317,759.50. This income is antici-pated
mostly from tuitions with the
balance coming from donations,
rent, board, interest and miscel-laneous
contributions.
Students are so busy going to
school that few of them ever pause
to think of what it costs to keep
Bethel in operation. Last' year's
financial statement revealed camp-us
evaluation and assets to be
$1,114,762.77. Liabilities connected
with operation are small, although
last year was not as successful as
previous years in reference to
balancing the budget.
The year ended with a deficit for
the fiirst time in ten years, the
amount being $6,643.45. The men's
and the women's dormitories and
the dining hall came out "in the
red." Hagstrom Apartments was
the only dormitory to meet its
cost of operation.
TONIGHT
Literary Society meet.
Basketball with Austin (there)
February 11
Basketball with Waldorf (here)
February 13
Thu Sigma Pi at 7:30 p.m.
Twin City Basketball League (in
Bethel gym)
February 14
German Club at noon.
Spanish Club at 7:30 p.m.
February 16
B.W.A.
February 17
Basketball with Worthington
(here)
Missionary Band
February 20-24 Founder's Week
February 20
Twin City Basketball League (in
Bethel gym)
February 21
Basketball with Brainard (here)
February 25
Basketball with Bethany (here)
February 27- March 3
Winter Quarter Finals
February 27
Twin City Basketball League (in
Bethel gym)
February 28
Basketball with Luther (here)
Faculty Captures
Cup In 49-38 Win
Lads Edge Lords, 41-39 in Overtime
Thriller. Crowd Cheers Gymnasts
by Dave Osterberg
Last night the Faculty basketball team, led by professors Johnson
and Edwards, gained possession of the coveted Coffee-Cup Trophy by
cleaning up on the Fumbling Five dishwashers, 49-38, in the third annual
Coffee Cup game. This victory was the first for the teachers in the series,
having lost in the first two tilts to the Clarion squad in '48 and to the
Intramural All-Stars in '49.
After a cold first quarter which ended with the dishwashers leading
7-5, the teachers found the answers and pulled away to a 25-14 lead at
half-time. The third quarter ended with the faculty out in front 42-21,
but the dishwashers proved they were not all washed up by coming back
strong in the last quarter to make it a great battle. Final score was
49-38 for the faculty.
Founder's Week
A Challenge
Week of February 20-24
Promises Great Things
ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of the year at Bethel as well as
throughout the Conference is Founder's Week. The week of February
20 - 24 will be packed with spiritual nourishment and many challenges
again this year.
Lords and Ladies are planning
a program in keeping with the day
on which they will meet. It is
doubtful if it could be strictly held
that Dan Cupid's campus activities
are confined at Bethel to the single
day of February 14, but he will
be the guest of the two societies,
nevertheless. So to all Lord's and
Ladies the following excerpt is
addressed:
LORDS AND LADIES
Page 2 THE CLARION Friday, February 10, 1950
G1631EOCU
Editor-In-Chief Bruce Herrstrom
Assistant Editor Marilyn Kortum
News Editor Margaret Sheffler
Feature Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Sports Editor Roger Hedberg
Photographer Keith Davis
Staff Members: L. Anderson, R. Armstrong, D.
Brown, L. Butler, D. Carlson, L. Caskey, J.
Hubbard, R. Jorgenson, K. LaGesse, H. Lind,
B. Olander, A. Samuelson, M. Schultz, E.
Skogman, C. Smith, E. Stayton, M. Thomp-son,
A. Weldon.
Chief Typist Lois Mellbom
Business Manager Ray Johnson
Circulation Manager Helen Dahl
Faculty Adviser David Guston
Issued bi-kveekly during the school
year, except during vacations.
Subscription Rate $1.50 per year
No Other
Foundation . . •
In order to perform our task well it is
absolutely necessary not only to have a
clear vision of the future with its needs and
possibilities but also to have a thorough
understanding and appreciation of the past.
Most certainly we shall be better prepared
to rightly evaluate our own times if we
know men and movements of history, pri-marily
as it pertains to the kingdom of God.
At Founder's Week very naturally our
thoughts are directed, at least in part, to
the life and work of the founder of Bethel,
John Alexis Edgren. The fundamental ob-ject,
however, is not to pay tribute to the
founder, but rather to render praise to
God for giving to our fellowship a man of
such rare intellectual and spiritual talents
as Dr. Edgren.
From the very beginning of the Seminary,
in October, 1871, he adopted, among others,
the following important principle: "The
preacher should have as good an education
as possible, but of all knowledge the most
important is to know the Bible. To cultivate
the mind is important, but to cultivate the
spiritual life is even more important." We
trust and pray that that important emphasis
on the Bible and a deep spiritual life may
always be supreme at Bethel. For we are
not in the field to compete with intellec-tualism
"per se", or to answer all the argu-ments
of the critcs, but rather to prepare
young people to go out with a positive
message from the Lord, and to point the
lost to the Redeemer, and to build up the
saints in a holy walk. The program of
Founder's Week has always centered in
basic Christianity, and thus to furnish both
instruction and inspiration to Christian
workers "to expect great things from God
and attempt great things for God."
Adolf Olson
We acknowledge the omission of credi-tation
due to the St. Paul Pioneer Press
for the use of their cut on the front
page of our Jan. 27th edition.
ON
THE
BURNER
Eric. was out chopping ice off the side
walk the other day which reminded me of
the "chopping" that some of the biology
lab. students have been doing. As Mr.
Anderson was helping Adelia Erickson cut
the eyes out of her pig last Thursday he
smilingly began to sing, "I don't see me in
your eyes anymore."
How the days do fly, I think even the
ground hog must feel pretty rushed! As
"Morrie" would say, "It depends on how
cute she it!" That's "Morrie" always wising
off.
Fellows, just to slip a hint, here's one
big chance of the year to let that gal know
how much you really like her. You don't
have to take her out to dinner or make
eyes at her in the hall. Just send her three
little words written on a piece of paper and
she'll be happy. 'Not "I love you", but
"be my valentine". You'd think I was giving
a commercial for Hallmark cards! Oh, by
the way, you'd be surprised how roses
brighten up a dreary, cold, dormitory
"cell".
Just in case you've been wondering why
all the bewildered looks and guzzled faces
were walking around campus last week, I'll
tell you. It was "secret pal" or "heart
sister" week for the girls at Bodien Resi-dence.
All the girls had fun writing poems,
doing favors or playing tricks on their
secret pals. Shirley Anderson enjoys play-ing
tricks on her secret pal, Audrey Hol-stedt.
One day Audrey found a wooden keg
sitting by her mail-box with several articles
of her ward-robe tucked inside. Here she
hadn't even missed them. Ruth Danielson
found a whole pie waiting on her desk
one evening. Speaking about pies, I think
most-of us had our share of sweets—didn't
we look it?
Accidently or on purpose is the question.
Several girls have received pamphlets on
"How to lose weight", "How to be a good
cook", and "How to improve your voice."
You fellows expect an awful lot.
Has everyone gotten to see the newest
Sonja Henny at Bethel? She's a whiz on
ice-skates. Have you guessed — Margaret
Hanson. There are several handsome coup-les
seen together on the skating rink as
well as in the coffee-shop. Eddie Carlson
doesn't seem to have too much trouble hold-ing
Caroline Anderson up.
Has anyone noticed a tall dark complect-ed
man walking around campus lately?
He's rather quiet, but usually friendly and
jovial. Do you think you have noticed him?
Well, if you see a man of this description
walking around campus please report it to
the Clarion. We'd like you to identify our
"mystery man." Until he is identified keep
your eyes open and look for more clues.
He knows, He loves, He cares—
Nothing the truth can dim;
He gives His very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.
Debaters Among Top Ten
At Moorhead Tournament
Men's division was held at Concordia
College, Moorhead, Minn.
Women's division was held at Moorhead
State Teachers, Moorhead, Minn.
Bethel entered 3 teams in this tournament
and had one entrant in the Men's Oratory
Division.
The 3 debate teams rated near the top
in the tournament in which there was a
total of 53 teams entered from Iowa, Minne-sota,
North Dakota, South Dakota and Wis-consin.
The 4 top ranking teams in the
tournament won either 6 out of 6 debotes
(1 team from Luther) or 5 out of 6 (3
teams). Bethel was close behind with 2 of
its teams winning 4 debates out of 6 while
its 3rd team won 3 out of 6 debating on the
subject, • "resolved, that the U.S. Govern-ment
should nationalize all the basic non-agricultural
industries."
The teams won debates as follows:
Louis Nelson
Bob Daley
This team received the decision over
Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., Bemid-ji
State Teachers, St. Cloud Teachers and
University of Minnesota.
Floyd Welch
Wendell Anderson Won 4 out of 6
This team received decision over Augus-tana,
Sioux Falls, S. D., St. Olaf College,
Northfield, Minn., State Teachers College,
Valley City, N. D., and St. Cloud Teachers
(Team No. 2).
Harold Lind
Curtis Johnson W on 3 out of 6
This team received decisions from South
Dakota State, University of Minn.—Duluth
Branch and Augsburg.
In the Oratory Division, Henry Nelson
won out in his division in the preliminary
rounds and won third place in the final
contest. There were 12 original contestants.
The two winning Orators in the men's divi-sion
were from Eau Claire Teachers and
Luther College of Decorah, Iowa.
The next tournament will be held at
State Teachers College, Eau Claire, Wis.
on the week-end of February 17 and 18.
In Memoriam
February 7th marked the passing of a
pioneer foreign missionary of the Baptist
General Conference. Rev. August Lindstedt
began his missionary service in Siberia in
1925. He worked among the Russians in this
area and later pioneered in mission work
among the White Russians in Manchuria
and China.
His faithful labors were rewarded by
retirement in 1948 and now he has gone to
his eternal reward which was ever his
earnest desire.
The Clarion extends its sincere sympathy
to Mrs. Lindstedt and the tour sons, Mar-win,
Olof, Carl and Roy in this loss.
Marwin, as a member of the Clarion Staff,
is Feature Editor.
ft; ems of Xbougbt
By President Wingblade
Generally speaking, the more one knows
about anything or any subject the more in-teresting
that becomes. There are persons
who have become highly enthusiastic in
their study of ants or bees or flowers or
stars. The more they know, the more they
want to know; and their enthusiasm be-comes
contagious.
It is said that the man who waxes en-thusiastic
about cosines can, through his
very enthusiasm, make others to become
interested and enthusiastic—and gather a
crowd.
On the other hand, if we know next to
nothing about a subject, we cannnot expect
ourselves to be much interested.
There is, then, what we call passibe at-tention
and active attention. At first a sub-ject
may seem very dry indeed and, at first
though, we would like to drop it. But we
recognize its importance, and we take our-selves
in hand and buckle down. We com-pel
ourselves to give attention.
What happens? As we go into the sub-ject
more our interest increases. After
awhile we find ourselves carried away by
the quickened interest, and compulsion is
no longer needed. It is rather easy and
pleasant to give ourselves to the subject
and what seemed before to be hard work
and almost drudgery has now become a joy.
And so we have the classic college story
of the freshman who asked permission of
the dean to drop a subject which he clear-ly
disliked. He admitted that he gave little
time to it because he disliked it.
The dean agreed on. one condition; name-ly,
that the student for some ten days give
three hours of study each day to that par-ticular
undersirable subject.
The result was that the student became
so interested that he forgot his very request
to the dean. Upon the dean's meeting the
student in the hall, he asked him how he
was coming with the subject.
"Oh, fine," was the answer.
"But don't you want to drop it?"
"Drop it?" came the response from the
student. "Why, no! It is the most interest-ing
subject I have."
Tbe Zivakeneb &out
Upon • the soul's returning
Unto the Father's house,
From life upon the earth plane,
What can he do to rouse
An understanding of. its
Realness, that he is still aware
Of God's eternal goodness, of
The Heaven he's to share
With the long-departed dear
Ones, with helpers of this realm
Whose watchful care and love
Was the hand upon the helm,
As he glided into safety in
The port of heavenly rest;
There to dwell forever in the
Land of all the blest,
And awaken to the knowledge
That now at least he'll know
That life is real, eternal,
From thence he need not go.
Won 4 out of 6
Speech Pleased the Lord by Harold oCind
Wind from rind
John's
This last weekend the Debate teams
were up at the Red River Tournament at
Moorhead, Minnesota. Somehow this De-bate
Tournament was quite different than
those of latter days. "Why was this dif-ferent?"
you ask. Because there was one
spark, one laugh, one chuckle and one life
missing from our group. It was the Spirit-filled
life of our brother-in-Christ, John
Dalian.
At our last debate tournament in Iowa,
at the Iowa State Teachers College, Sohn
and I were a team. A team of Christian
debaters from Bethel. I can remember how
John kidded Bob Daley about different
kind of air they had in Iowa, how he help-ed
Florence Nordstrom and Jane Johnson
over the icy sidewalks, and how he put
all he had into his job of debating. I re-member
Friday evening after we had had
one debate, had both given an Extempor-ameous
speech and had a bite to eat before
going to our rooms. John and I went to
our room and on the way kidded Bob Daley
and Louie Nelson about sleeping in the
room next to us and that both of us
snored pretty loud. After we had both gotten
ready for bed, Johnnie said, "Let's brush
up on our case a bit." I said, "OK" and
we went over our cases. But the thing I
emember most of that trip and that even-ing
was after we put our "debate cases"
down, Johnnie and I took up the Word of
God and started reading to ourselves. John
didn't say anything just at that time but
the thought came to me that here was a
Christian, whose face was beaming with
the love of Christ, searching the Scriptures
and meditating quietly with God. I thank
God for the testimony of John's life to me,
as I realized my need of a closer walk with
Jesus, by this life that was so dedicated
to Him.
Yes, he spoke the truth in love. I believe,
as it says in I Kings 3:10 and if I may
paraphrase one word, "And John's speech
pleased the Lord." Whether it was in busi-ness,
in debating, in the coffee shop or
wherever. John was truly a Christian
gentleman, upholding love to all his fellow
men. I am .reminded here of the story
of a young woman who was seen in a ceme-tary
in a large city, carefully placing a
wreath of flowers by a simple gravestone.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she paused
beside the grave. A stranger passing noted
her devotion and asked if the deceased was
come close relative of hers.
"No," she replied, "but this is the grave
of a brave fireman who saved my life when
I was an infant. He rushed upstairs in my
father's house, where I lay asleep. The fire-man
opened a window and tossed me
safely to his comrades below. He himself
perished, for the building fell in flames.
He saved me for a longer life, and I must
prove worthy of his sacrifice for me."
Our Saviour and Lord died, when young,
on a cruel cross that we might be saved
eternally. Just before He did so. He said,
"This is my commandment, That ye love
one another, as I have Loved you."
Truly that was the love that John had
for his fellow men, the love of Christ being
shed abroad through his heart.
We know, from the promise in the Scrip-ture,
that if one of God's saints is absent
from the body, he is present with the Lord.
Let it be a challenge to each one of us
left here on this earth to "Work For The
Night Is Coming" and ask ourselves the
question, "What If It Were Today?"
•
Page
NORTHLAND (45) FG FT PF TP Iowa-Platte Valley .. . 8* 0
Zinnicker, f 2 0 3 4 Illinois A 5 3*
Larson, f 0 0 2 1 Michigan-Wisconsin ... 5 3
Hlndes, f 7 2 3 16 Faculty 4 3
L. Howard, c 4 5 3 13 Saint Paul 4 5*
Schroer, c 0 0 2 0 N. Minnesota 3 5*
B. Howard, g 2 3 5 7 Illinois B 3 5
Lodle, g 2 0 2 4 S. Minnesota 3* 5
— — — — West 3* 5
Total 17 11 21 45 East 2 6*
Score at Half: Bethel 22, Northland 21 * One game was played with Faculty
Officials: Rose, Flahtman team. ....
Bishop's Men's Wear
For Style, Quality and Value
In
SPORTSWEAR FURNISHINGS
CLOTHING AND SHOES
Investigate Our Charge Account
1540 Larpenture — PRior 1364
Falcon Heights
1.000
.625
.625
.572
.445
.375
.375
.375
.375
.250
MOLITOR'S
JEWELER
1548 Larpenteur Avenue—MIdway 8000
Diamonds — Watches — Silverware
Prompt watch and Jewelry repair.
10% discount—Bethel students and faculty
(Except Fair Traded items)
SHIRTS LAUNDERED
FOUR DAir SERVICE
Falcon Finer Cleaners
1547 W. Larpenteur NE. 8616
MANY PREFER
NORMANDY KITCHEN
M in neapol is
The Steakhouse Without Liquor 1
Friday, February 10, 1950 THE CLARION
Team at Austin Tonight; Waldorf Here Saturday
9it The Spa/ilk:0i Coach Believes
W aldorfOneOf
by Roger Hedberg The"Toughest"
Indians Maintain Early
Lead to Top Brainerd, 61-50
Last Tuesday night, on the Minnehaha court, the Indian's 61-50
victory over Brainerd put the two teams on an equal basis of one
victory apiece since the competition began last year. Before the first
two minutes of play had elapsed, Brainerd took a 6-1 lead, however,
this lead was overcome when Gordy Wood, Indian guard, scored 12
points in the first period and before the quarter wore out, Bethel
dominated the lead, 25-8. Woods went on to total 24 points for scoring
honors of the evening.
At halftime, the Indians held a
substantial 32-20 lead and added
6 more points to their margin of
victory by a third quarter score of
50-32. Brainerd outscored the In-dians
in the final period but could
only narrow their losing difference
to a final score of 61-50.
In the preliminary game, the
Bethel B team came from behind
to tie Bethlehem Baptist at the
final buzzer. In an overtime period
took a 4 point 36-23 lead which
they held until victory was theirs
as the time ran out. Jim Lemon
scored 14 points taking scoring
honors for the "B's", and Ronald
Anderson followed second by hit-ting
for nine.
BETHEL (63) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 2 1 2 5
G. Johnson, f 0 1 0 1
Bjorndahl, f 2 1 1 5
Nage, f 0 1 3 1
Nelson, f 0 0 2 0
Greenman, c 6 1 1 3
Bandy, c 0 0 0 0
Pierce, g 6 0 1 12
Thompson, g 0 0 0 0
Anderson, g 0 0 0 0
Wood,g 8 8 2 24
T. Johnson, g 0 0 1 0
— — — —
Total 24 13 13 63
BRAINERD (50) FG FT PF TP
Melby, f 3 2 3 8
Scheuer, f 1 2 2 4
Blockman, f 1 0 4 2
Tuomi, c 4 3 3 11
Vealnish, c 0 0 0 0
Butorac, g 4 5 2 13
Schierholtz, g 0 0 0 0
Melenich, g 0 0 1 0
Brown, g 3 0 2 6
Perovitch, g 3 0 0 6
— — — —
Totals 19 12 17 50
Score at Half: Bethel 32, Brainerd 20
Bethel Noses Out
Northland, 46-45
On Saturday night, the 28th, at
Minnehah Academy, The Northland
College `Lumberjacks' of Ashland,
Wisconsin, were nosed out in de-feat
by the Indians by the one point
margin of 46-45. It was a field goal
netted by Center Kenny Greenman
in the last minute of the event that
gave the Indians their lead and an
effective stall for the remaining
seconds preserved the lead for a
victory at the final buzzer. Green-man
also took scoring honors for
the evening by totaling ten field
goals and six free throws for 26
points. Gordy Woods was the only
Indian who came close to Green-man
by totalling 11 points.
BETHEL (46) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 0 3 3 3
G. Johnson, f 0 0 0 0
Bjorndahl, f 0 4 3 4
Nelson, f 0 0 2 0
Greenman, c 10 6 4 26
Pierce, g 1 0 2 2
Wood, g 3 5 1 11
Totals 14 18 15 46
Varsity Bows To
Eau Claire, 67-58
Playing against a tough Eau
Claire State Teachers team, Bethe'l
droped a 67-58 decision for their
first loss in the last six games.
The game, which was played at
Eau Claire on January 30, was a
real battle all the way with the
lead alternating between the two
teams. The contest was fairly
rough; 44 fouls were called, 22 on
each team.
Scorers for Bethel were Green-man
with 19, Wood, 14, Peterson
13, and Pierce with 11. Gordy John-son
added the other point on a free
toss. High for the Blugolds was
Emanuel with 23 points.
BETHEL (58) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 4 5 4 13
G. Johnson, f 0 1 0 1
Bjorndahl, f 0 0 5 0
Nage, f 0 0 2 0
Nelson, f 0 0 0 0
Greenman, c 7 5 3 19
Bandy, c 0 0 0 0
Wood, g 4 6 4 14
Thompson, g 0 0 0 0
Pierce, g 5 1 4 11
T. Johnson, g 0 0 0 0
— — — —
Totals 20 18 22 58
EAU CLAIRE (67) FG FT PF TP
Emanuel, f 10 3 4 23
DuFrane, f 3 3 3 9
Proctor, f 1 1 0 3
Musolf, f 1 0 2 2
Bos, c 6 4 4 16
Washburn, g 2 5 5 9
Bulmer, g 0 0 0 0
Billmeyer, g 1 3 3 5
Torgeson, g 0 0 1 0
— —
Totals 24 19 22 67
Score at Half: Bethel 25, Eau Claire 33
Officials. Sammon, Lee
9oilizamovtal
The top six scorers in the in-tramural
basketball tournament up
to February 4 are as follows:
Howie Carlson (Illinois A) and
Lowell Bergeson (Michigan-Wis-consin)
are tied for first place hon-ors
with 117 points in 8 games.
Ronnie Skoog (Northern Minne-sota),
although in fifth place in
total points, leads all scorers with
an average of 15.5 points a game.
In third place in total points is
Fennet Swanson of the Iowa-Platte
Valley team with 116 points. Don
Dye (Illinois B) with 111 points, is
fourth from the top, while Ronnie
Skoog is in fifth place with 109
points. LeRoy aSndberg (Saint
Paul) is sixth leading scorer in
the league with 103 points.
TEAM STANDING
I sincerely hope that you all en-joyed
the Coffee Cup game last
night and that all your expecta-tions
of your favorite team were
met. I think it does a lot for the
spirit of the faculty-student rela-tionship
when we can witness
sportsmanship saturated with good
humor such as was witnessed last
evening. I want to thank all who
helped make the game a success,
and that includes everybody. If you
didn't participate your purchase of
a ticket makes it possible for the
publications on campus to give bet-ter
service and to improve the
printed page.
Axeen Coaches
Girl's Team
Just Organized
On January 27, 1950, as eighteen
girls gathered in the gym with
their newly-appointed coach, Miss
Axeen, a dream became reality,
for this was the first practice of
the Bethel College Girls' Basketball
Team.
Since that first practice, three
more practices have been held on
January 30, 31, and February 3, at
which the attendence averaged
fourteen. Regular practice hours
have been set from 8:00 P.M. to
10 P.M. on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings and from 2 P.M. to 4 P.M.
on Saturdays.
Plans for this school team began
last fall when several students
presented their ideas to the Student
Council President, Bob Daley. He
then consulted Dean Carlson who
approved the request made for
equipment and thus the Bethel Col-lege
Girls' Basketball Team became
an official school enterprise.
White uniforms with red letter-ing
and numbers have been order-ed
and three new regulation
basketballs as well as smaller
equipment such as whistles and
rule books have already been pur-chased
and put to use.
Several schools in the twin cities
have been contacted concerning
scheduling games with them.
Among these schools are the Uni-versity
of Minnesota Farm Campus,
Murray High School, Mounds-Mid-way
School of Nursing, Macaliaster,
and Northwestern. Coach Edwards
has also expressed the possibility
of having the girls' team play pre-liminary
games before scheduled
varsity games are played.
The twelve girls chosen by Miss
Axeen to compose this first Bethel
Girls' Basketball Team are: Bobbe
Lou Cooper, Janice Jackson, Mari-lyn
Kortum, Aleen Lindquist, Betty
Michaelson, Claryce Skoog, Laurel
Lundberg, Beverly Hiebel, Hanna
Janke, Lois Safstrom, Audrey Sam-uelson,
and Ruth Martinson.
"BE HAPPY WITH
A HOBBY"
Handicraft, Miniature Cars,
Model Airplanes and Railroads
CAL'S HOBBY SHOP
593 N. Snelling MI. 8998
ROGER SHOLD •
For Dependable Quality
Dry Cleaning Service
CASH AND CARRY PRICES
HAMLINE CLEANERS
I would remind you that I'd like
to see you all at tomorrow night's
game over at Minnehaha. In get-ting
the coach's outlook for the
game I might say it didn't sound
too good. Waldorf Junior College
has always had above average Jun-ior
College teams and this year is
no exception. We won by one point
last year and this season it is just
as likely that the victory margin
can be held as easily by either
team, but lets all turn out to help
that margin favor the Indians.
Scoring Spree
NetsCagers180-55
Concordia Win
Chalking up their sixth win of
the season, Bethel defeated Con-cordia,
80-55, on the Comets floor
February 4. The Indians had their
hottest night of the current season
as they hit on 33 of 79 field goals
for a blistering average of .418.
This, along with 14 of 19 tree
throws gave the Redmen their
highest score this year. Greenman,
having his best night of the season,
was high point man with 27 points.
He hit on 13 of 23 shots for a
spectacular 56 percent. Bud Pierce,
again starred at guard with a final
tally of 22 points, and Gordy Wood,
also outstanding at a guard spot
added 15. High for the Comets was
Young with 22.
BETHEL (80) FG FT PF TP
Peterson, f 1 3 5 5
G. Johnson, f 0 0 0 0
Bjorndahl, f 2 0 4 4
Hage, f 0 1 3 1
Nelson, f 1 1 1 3
Greenman, c 13 1 1 27
Bandy, c 0 0 2 0
Pierce, g 9 4 2 22
Thompson, g 0 0 1 0
Anderson, g 0 0 0 0
Wood, g 6 3 0 15
T. Johnson, g 1 1 1 3
— — — —
Totals 33 14 20 80
CONCORDIA (55) FG FT PF TP
Zobel, f 7 1 5 15
Grumm, f 2 0 0 4
R. Shepherd, I 1 1 3 3
Kuhlman, f 2 2 4 6
Young, c 8 6 1 22
Jank, c 1 0 1 2
G. Shephard, g 1 0 1 2
Koehler, g 0 1 2 1
Daniels, g 0 0 0 0
Ludwig, g 0 0 1 0
Graupner, g 0 0 0 0
— — — —
Totals 22 11 19 55
Score at Half: Bethel 33, Concordia 27
Officials: Liston, Koehler
Tonight the Indians play Austin
Junior College, at Austin, for their
second engagement this season.
Last January 7th, Austin was de-feated
under Indian strength by a
wide margin of 53-21, at the Minne-haha
gymn. In the previous encoun-ter,
it was evident that Austin was
deficient both in offensive and de-fensive
play. The tricky dribbling
and passing of Woods and Pierce
was what seemed to limit efficient
guarding for Austin. Although no
"Cinch" is anticipated by the Bet-hel
five, they go with confidence
of bringing back another victory.
Tomorrow night, starting at 8:15,
at the Minnehaha Gym, the Indians
encounter Waldorf Junior College,
of Forrect City, Iowa, who will
bring a team that, according to
Coach Edwards, is among the
toughest teams on the Indian sche-dule.
Last year the Indians had to
fight hard against the excellent
Waldorf eleven and managed to
come out victors by the one point
margin 46-45. Tomorrow night will
be the first and only time the
teams meet this season.
Sports Sketch
Bud Bjorndahl, six foot, twenty
year old Indian varsity eager, play-ed
his first basketball for a school
team (either high school or college)
last year when he was "first
string" on the Bethel "B" team.
Church league basketball in Chic-ago
gave Bud the foundation for
his collegiate play, as was demon-strated
last year when he was
second high-scorer of the "B"
squad. But, not content to rest
upon past laurels, Bud has improv-ed
his fast, vigorous type of ball
as well as his teamwork to be-come
one of the most valuable
players on the Indian squad.
"Working and playing with the
Bethel squad, which this year is
one of the smoothest and polished
teams I have ever seen, has cer-tainly
been a help to me—not only
in giving me confidence in play-ing
and in developing teamwork but
also in strengthening me as an in-dividual",
is the way Bud expres-ses
himself.
Although uncertain whether he
will transfer to the University of
Illinois or remain at Bethel next
year, Bud is planning at present
on a history major.
Team Won Lost Pct.
FALCON HEIGHTS
HARDWARE
Westinghouse Appliances
General Hardware
MIdway 5933
1539 W. Larpenteur
Winfrey's Variety
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
VARIETY STORE
1532 Larpenteur : MI. 7849
BIBLES, BOOKS, TRACTS, SONG BOOKS
RECORDS AND PLAQUES
10% Discount to Bethel Students
Midwest Book and Bible Centre
135 Endicott Arcade St. Paul 1, Minnesota
QUALITY
Westlund's Food
Market, Inc.
Quick Freeze Service
and Frosted Foods
Meats at Fair Prices
FOODS
Johnson & Barnes
Fairway Foods
Fruits and Vegetables
597 Snelling Avenue North Ne. 8621
PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE
MIDTOWN CLEANERS
Special 10% discount to Bethel Students and Faculty
1535 Como Avenue
1672 Hamline North
Only One Cleaning — The BEST
LANDIS SERVICE STATION
SNELLING & COMO AVE.
• EXPERT LUBRICATION • TOWING & 'WASHING
• TIRE REPAIR • IGNITION TUNE-UP
NEstor 4182
Page 4
THE CLARION Friday, February 10, 1950
Lads, Lass' Hold
Alter-glow Sing
With Bob Daley leading, the all-school
"sing", sponsored by the
Lads and Lassies and held in the
Edgren rec room, Jan: 29, was suc-cessful
in carrying on the spirit
of Missionary Emphasis Week
which had impressed the student
body the week before.
The after-glow gathering got un-derway
with vigorous group sing-ing
around the fire crackling in the
fireplace. Elwin Forssel sang two
solos and Bruce Woodman and
Wendell Anderson played two
selections on their instruments.
Dick Anthony accompanied them
at the piano.
Following a short devotional by
Bob, about twelve testimonies of
praise and blessings received dur-ing
the previous week were given
by -members of the group.
Lads and Lassies climaxed the
time of fellowship by serving a
lunch of barbecued sandwiches,
coffee and cake. The organization
hopes to make these Sunday after-noon
"sings" an established func-tion
on campus. Ruth Martinson
and Margaret Miller headed the
committee responsible for the plan-ning
of the "sing".
Rev. J. G. Johnson Works
With 40 Young Churches
Forty missionary churches are
being supported by the Minnesota
Baptist Conference and many Bet-hel
students have gone to work in
them, yet the work of the Con-ference
in this connection and that
of the executive secretary, Rev.
John G. Johnson, is probably un-familiar
to many students.
Rev. Johnson has been on campus
only since last March. As executive
secretary he is in charge of all
Conference churches in Minnesota.
He helps establish new churches
and aids them in obtaining a build-ing
and a pastor.
Now Available
1950 Advance
Adventurer in Faith
by J. E. Klingberg
Bethel Coffee Shop
eativirp
jOapti5t
eburcb
REV. H. S. CARLSON
Pastor
Reflections From
Senior Class Concert
by James Hubbard
"A new song . . . even praise
unto our God: many shall se,e it,
and fear, and shall trust the Lord."
The Winter Concert sponsored
by the Senior Class of 1950 was
presented Thursday evening, Feb.
2, and well received by the Bethel
audience. From the heart and lips
of George Beverly Shea, well-known
Gospel singer, came a new song
that caused us to trust more in
the Lord. The gospel songs and
hymns were sung in the manner
that only Bev Shea can sing them.
His is not the voice of a Caruso
or a Pinza, but his voice is the
sounding box of his heart, and out
of it flows forth praise unto our
Lord.
Bertil Anderson, graduate of Bet-hel,
accompanied Mr. Shea and
also did solo work in his usual
artistic manner. His ability, both
as a soloist and as. an accompanist
were shown. His treatment of the
work of the master musicians com-plemented
well the performance of
Mr. Shea. Mr. Anderson has the
ability and capacity of a Ruben-stein,
and this gift of his has been
dedicated to the service of the
Lord.
Mr. Shea and Mr. Anderson drew
our hearts and minds closer to the
Lord. Through them we have learn-ed
to love our Lord all the more.
A hearty thank you to the Senior
Class for bringing these two fine
men to our campus.
It is beneficial , to the Bethel
students to have Rev. Johnson on
campus since he has helped many
of the Seminary students to secure
student pastorates. Much of his
time is spent in evangelistic work
for which he is well fitted, having
been the Conference evangelist in
Minnesota from 1927 to 1931.
Love Theme of
Girls' Dorm Party
Almost one hundred pajama-clad
residents of the Girls' Dormitory
packed into the loung of Bodien
Residence on Monday evening, Feb.
6 for the Dorm Valentine Party.
Uppermost in their thoughts was
the fact that secret heart sisters,
who were responsible for many
favors and gifts the past week,
were at last to be revealed. This
was done by original poems writ-ten
by each girl containing clues
to her identity, and given to the
girl who had been her heart sister.
A program centered around the
Valentine theme of love, and cli-maxed
by the love of God inter-woven
Into that theme, was pre-sented
by all the residents of the
new wing of the second floor, and
headed by Florence Nordstrom.
Paintbrush Efforts
Add to Bethel Interiors
Several campus buildings have
added a dash or two of inside
color since Christmas vacation,
thanks to the paintbrush efforts of
John Dishinger and Cliff Anderson,
who did the work under the super-vision
of Mr. Eric Borgeson.
Dean Carlson's office was paint-ed
a pastel green and one of the
music rooms in the college building
underwent similar treatment. In
Bodien residence one corner room
and the basement washroom re-ceived
a coat of paint for the first
time. Back hallways of both dormi-tories
were also painted.
Future plans are made for still
more re-decorating. This will be
the first time dorm room walls
have been painted, tinted plaster
have contributed the needed color
before.
Bethel Representative
Leads Three Meetings
OF Press Society
Perry Hedberg, chairman of the
college and school publications sec-tion
of Evangelical Press Associa-tion,
led three of their sectional
meetings in Chicago the last week
in January. Student representatives
from Moody Bible Institute, North
Park and Wheaton colleges, and
Wheaton academy were present.
"We've preached God's grace and
God's love so long in fundamental
circles," said Dr. A. W. Tozer, "that
we have developed an impudent
and rebellious group of Christians
today. Dr. Tozer, pastor of the
largest Christian and Missionary
Alliance church in the world, made
this statement to the last E.P.A.
session.
He explained to the assembled
evangelical writers and editors "we
need a new emphasis" among or-thodox
believers. "That new em-phasis,"
he said, "should be sub-jective"
and "for the inner man."
This latest need is in contrast to
the "objective, creedal" approach
so evident about us, Dr. Tozer sug-gested.
THIRTY-NINE LEADERS ATTEND
We were encouraged to have
thirty-nine leaders of twenty-two of
our campus organizations in at-tendance.
The first session was in-formative
and enlightening regard-ing
coming events at Bethel, and
suggestions as to how we may best
take part in them were given.
INFORMAL DISCUSSION GROUPS
Then while coffee and doughnuts
were served, we separated into
smaller informal discussion groups
according to fields of major in-terest.
There the specific problem
of our greatest need on Bethel's
campus was discussed and an out-line
of various questions was filled
in by each group. These have prov-ed
very constructive to the Coun-cil
and are of great aid in showing
us the attitudes and interests of
the students.
GREATER THINGS IN STORE
The Forum led to a feeling of
encouragement that even greater
things are in store for Bethel dur-ing
the remainder of this school
year. Work together toward this
end!!
A Logical Conclusion
Among the studes with logical
minds decorating our campus is
Arvid Berg who brings the follow-ing
conclusion. A cat has ten tails.
Why? Because no cat has nine
tails and a cat is one more than
no cat. (Neat, huh?)
Leaders Cooperate
In Mid-Year Forum
by Council Secretary, Helen Olson
The Student Council is grateful for the spirit of interest shown
by many in the Student Leadership Forum held last Tuesday. Many
organizations were most cooperative by submitting their mid-year re-ports
on the activities of their group at the Forum as requested. For
those who did not complete their reports, we remind you that the dead-line
has been extended to Tuesday, February 14th. Be sure to file them
with us by then!
February 12:
9 :45 Bible School
11:00 Rev. David Gunton
5 :15 COltegle Fellowship
6:15' B. T. U. ,
7 :15 Mr. Maurice Schultz
STUDENTS = WELCOME
"The fastest growing church in the Twin Cities"
era eefrtie4
Corner Larpenteur and Snelling — MI. 9646
OPEN MONDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS
The exclusive specialty shop where Bethel girls
enjoy buying their togs.
A lovely selection of spring suits, coats, silk piints,
cottons, and sportswear especially for the coed.
Charge accounts and lay-bys invited.
N. L. HERMES
Flower and Gift Shop
1581 W. Larpenteur Mi. 1017
Falcon Hairdressing
Studio & Barber Shop
1548 W. Larpenteur Ave.
NE. 6104
JEWELERS
OPTOMETRISTS
C. J. & H. W. ANDERSON
1573 University Avenue
Midway 9910
An accredited school of
NURSING
With college affiliation if desired
The Mounds-Midway School of Nursing operated in con-nection
with Midway Hospital and Mounds Park Hospital,
offers the unusual opportunity of studying nursing in hos-pitals
of high standard in an atmosphere of Christian fellow-ship
and missionary interest.
Minimum prerequisites for entrance: high school diploma,
sound health, good character, and church affiliation.
• Application should be made to: .
MISS MARY DANIELSON, Director
Mounds-Midway School of Nursing
200 EARL STREET ST. PAUL 6, MINN.